UID:
edocfu_9959245935802883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4384-0333-X
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0-585-04602-6
Series Statement:
SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
Content:
Yiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never before been surveyed by a scholarly monograph in English. Classic Yiddish Fiction provides an overview and interprets the Yiddish fiction of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz. While analyzing their works, Frieden situates these three authors in their literary world and in relation to their cultural contexts. Two or three generations ago, Yiddish was the primary language of Jews in Europe and America. Today, following the Nazi genocide and half a century of vigorous assimilation, Yiddish is sinking into oblivion. By providing a bridge to the lost continent of Yiddish literature, Frieden returns to those European traditions. This journey back to Ashkenazic origins also encompasses broader horizons, since the development of Yiddish culture in Europe and America parallels the history of other ethnic traditions.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- Contents -- Introduction -- Abramovitsh -- The Grandfather of Yiddish Literature -- S. Y. Abramovitsh: Mendele and the Origins of Modern Yiddish Fiction -- Satire and Parody in Abramovitsh's Later Fiction -- Sholem Aleichem -- The Grandson: Trials of a Yiddish Humoris -- Sholem Aleichem's "Jewish Novels -- Tevye the Dairyman and His Daughters' Rebellion -- Social Criticism in Sholem Aleichem's Monologues -- Sholem Aleichem's Monologues of Mastery -- Peretz -- The Father of Another Literary Family -- I. L. Peretz: Monologue and Madnessin the Early Stories -- Irony In I. L. Peretz's Chassidic Tales -- Back Matter -- Conclusion -- ABBREVIATIONS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS -- Back Cover.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7914-2601-7
Language:
English
